Lisa Slater holds a PhD from the University of Sydney. She has been a lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney and in 2007 became a Research Fellow at the Globalism Institute, RMIT, Melbourne, where her research examined Indigenous festivals as vehicles for the realisation of artistic, cultural and socio-political goals. In 2012, Slater joined the University of Wollongong as a lecturer in cultural studies.
